Just don't drop your stylus in my shake...

[Derek Snyder]

Glenda Stock, owner of five McDonald's franchises in the Alexandria area, has begun tests to implement Pocket PCs in the ordering process at her restaurants.

"...But now you can get your Big Mac and french fries even more faster thanks to new technology being used by the McDonald's restaurant on Jackson Street Extension. Employees are coming face-to-face with drive-thru customers once again and taking orders using a Pocket PC."

This seems like a great way to increase customer-employee interaction while increasing efficiency. How can you go wrong?

Will anyone really miss placing their orders through those sqawky oversized intercoms?

[adamz]

They should wear rollerskates!

I wonder if there'll be a "McDonalds ordering" pocket PC application that we can just drive into the parking lot with, connect to their WiFi, make the order.. and have the food delivered by a rollerskating high school kid. Or maybe someone on a Segway Human Transport?

[Don't Panic!]

Segway... Yeah... rollerskates are so 20th century.

Don't Panic!
Bobby

[Pony99CA]

Originally posted by Don't Panic!
Segway... Yeah... rollerskates are so 20th century.

I'm sure McDonald's will pay $5000 to give a Segway to a minimum wage worker instead of a $50 pair of rollerblades.

Steve

[lwt89]

hehe...

at my local in and out they are already using 802.11b with panasonic toughbooks (the tablet version with wearable computer brick) which i thought was pretty cool! i guess mcd's is catching on, but for people like me, if they dont start serving a little more healither food then those drive-in-order-takers will just be standing there